A dead Spanish and another missing in the catastrophe of the Dominican Republic disco | Spain

A citizen with dual nationality, Dominican and Spanish, died in the accident of the Jet Set Set Domingo disco occurred on Tuesday, in which there are at least 221 fatal victims, according to the last official balance, While another person, also with dual Hispanodominican nationality continues disappearedEFE has advanced and have confirmed sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to El País.

The same sources have indicated that the General Consulate in the Dominican capital is in contact with the families of both citizens.

In the last official statement of the country’s authorities, released on Thursday, another 189 people have been rescued alive from the accident of this disco, whose roof collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday. 155 people were referred to hospitals with wounds of various consideration.

The director of the Emergency Operations Center (COE), Juan Manuel Méndez, has updated the figures on Thursday. « We achieved, all the institutions present, preserve the lives of 189 people we could rescue, but unfortunately a balance of 221 people died, » he said in statements to the press from the outskirts of the Jetset disco, whose roof fell, for causes still unknown, on top of hundreds of people while the merengue singer Rubby Pérez, one of the deceased. « We did all the uprising » and what happened « real and effectively affects Dominican society, » Méndez added before tears forced him to interrupt the intervention.

Méndez, at the head of the COE for two decades, gave « thanks of the soul » to the hundreds of rescuers who work on the scene from the early hours of the tragedy, as well as the foreign personnel who joined these tasks. Next to it has appeared the Dominican Health Minister, Víctor Atallah, who has assured that the Institute of Forensic Pathology and the National Institute of Forensic Sciences of the Caribbean country work “without rest” to guarantee “the identification and delivery worthy of the bodies affected by the recent tragedy”.

« We are increasing our ability to deliver the bodies. Each of them requires an exhaustive process of necropsy, which takes time, but we are obtaining results in record time, » said Atallah.

In addition to Hispanodominican, among foreign victims are two French, an Italian and a Haitian, according to information offered Thursday by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF), and an American, according to the Secretary of State of that country, Marco Rubio.